My Old Neighborhood

Posted on July 24, 2014 by webdev

A view of DTLA by Ian Woods …

Yep, I miss my old photography loft at the intersection of the arts, garment and flower districts.

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William Gedney Homage

Posted on July 11, 2014 by webdev

Woodkid (aka Yoann Lemoine) just released this video homage to the work of William Gedney, with a remix of a Max Richter track (as Max Richter is one of my very favorite composers, I will be talking more about this on my music blog):

In case you’re not familiar with the wonderful work of William Gedney, he was a reclusive photographer working mostly in the 60s and 70s, championed by the likes of Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. He was rarely, if ever, exhibited on a solo basis during his lifetime (died of AIDs in the late 80s).  The only published book of his work was in 2000, to the best of my knowledge.

Duke University has a large collection of Gedney’s works and associated materials, and displays a nice  slideshow here of some of his images.  I highly recommend spending some time on the Duke University Library pages there to further explore the wealth of collected Gedney images and manuscripts.

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Aerial Warfare Photography – World War One

Posted on May 27, 2014 by webdev

l_02My old photog sidekick Bill turns me on to this collection of photographs presented by The Atlantic.

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‘Photography Against A White Background’ Patent

Posted on May 27, 2014 by webdev

This calls for a “WTF” …

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140507/04102327144/us-patent-office-grants-photography-against-white-background-patent-to-amazon.shtml

UPDATE: Colbert weighs in:  http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/4a4ahs/amazon-s-audacious-photography-patent

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Bunny Yeager, R.I.P.

Posted on May 26, 2014 by webdev

bunny-yeager_ripMore on this story and some pics  — also see recent (March 14) posting on Yeager

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Under Water

Posted on May 20, 2014 by webdev

Here are some speculative images to illustrate the effects of a twelve foot rise in sea level, including this one of my old home town where my beachfront photography studio was located.

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See more illustrations for other cities.

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Cranking It Up

Posted on May 1, 2014 by webdev

Bill, my old photography sidekick, collects and restores old-timey cinematography gear, like this:

https://happyhogrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_0393.mov https://happyhogrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_0040.mov

(Right-click in the viewing space if you need to set any permissions or parameters.  You may need Quicktime running on your computer to activate this video.)

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Remember Exakta?

Posted on April 30, 2014 by webdev

Photo by Theodore Lewis

Photo by Theodore Lewis

Just came upon some fine photographs made by Theodore Lewis OF that legendary German camera.  These photographs can be seen here.  And spend some time with his Tumblr site to see more of Lewis’ fine work.

Learn more about Exakta here.

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Cranked

Posted on April 30, 2014 by lawrence hathaway

From Bill:

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After the Fact Focus with Lytro’s Illium

Posted on April 23, 2014 by webdev

Now this is interesting.  Sure seems like a big advance over their Lytro offering of two or three years ago.  Go to Lytro’s site for more, or read the Wired piece that first brought this to my attention.

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